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- Institute's Colloquium 2021–22: Trusting Science
- Institute's Colloquium 2020–21: Crisis and Capacity
- Institute's Colloquium 2019–20: History of Science: Right Here, Right Now
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Past Events by Year
December 2022
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Between Convertibility and Perversion: Aviation, Atomic Energy, and the Discourses of Technological Internationalism
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & OnlineContact and Registration
The Institute's Colloquium series Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War will take place in person at the MPIWG and online, and is open to all. Academics, students, and members of the public are all welcome to attend, listen, and participate in discussion.
For online participation, please register at this email address: MPIWG_IC@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE and we will send you the updated zoom link for the colloquium.
- 19:00 to 20:30
- Reading Group
"Childbirth Technologies"— Reading Group
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
For registration or any questions about the meetings please contact ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
Zoom link will be provided via request ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The monthly reading and works-in-progress group will investigate childbirth technologies across regions, cultures, and time periods. Guiding questions include how technologies emerge from childbirth-related practices and how practices change reproductive bodies and obstetrical tools. We will discuss our own work-in-progress as well as secondary literature, depending on the interests of the participants. One focus will be on the comparative epistemic and socio-material relations of these technologies. Instead of understanding knowledge and object as separate issues, we explore how they emerge together and what kind of relations are enacted through them.
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Seminar
Adaptation and Norming of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) in Norway: 1970s to the Present
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Colloquium
Between Transcultural Disease and International Diagnostic Concept: The International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia (1965-1973)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
Please register by email to Birgit Nemec: birgit.nemec@charite.de.
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Ascent of Chinese Universities in World Rankings—Global Ambitions, Local Governance?
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Please register at the following link:
https://zoom.us/j/95306568300?pwd=WE9kdVp0YUluOVFPdkR2eHlJV2NOUT09This event is part of the LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series "China—The New Science Superpower?" For further information about the series, specific sessions, or questions concerning registration, please contact office-ahlers@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
China’s push to become a leading science power is unprecedented in its speed, scope and, arguably, success. Reactions to China’s rise in global science are dichotomous: some anticipate that science made in China may come to dominate global academia while others deem it impossible to achieve scientific leadership under an authoritarian regime. A focus on rankings and statistics alone is apparently not enough to grasp the origins, characteristics, and the possible futures of China as a science superpower.
This monthly lecture series will bring together fresh empirical insights and intriguing theoretical reflections about the development of the science system in the People’s Republic of China and its global integration. Representing a variety of social science perspectives, our guest speakers will explore the evolution of Chinese science policy, interactions of societal norms and values and academia in the PRC, factors that enable or constrain scientific innovation, the global reception of scientific output and investment from China, the securitization of international collaboration, and much more.
- 12:00 to 13:30
Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
- 16:00 to 20:00
- Memorial Event
Klaus Heinrich Memorial Event
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Jürgen Renn
- Lorenz Wilkens
- Karl-Heinz Kohl
- Monika Rinck
- Manfred Bauschulte
- Wolfgang Albrecht
- Jürgen Werth
- Hanns Zischler
- Vladimir Stoupel
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
We look forward to seeing you on site. We ask for advance registration: rennoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
- 12:00 to 16:15
- Workshop
Typologies of East Asian Maps in a Global Perspective
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
This event is open to all. Please register via this link: https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/en/register-workshop33.
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Open Science in University–Industry Research Collaboration in China: State of Affairs at the Policy-Level and Preliminary Evidence From the Field
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215/OnlineContact and Registration
For further information about the LMRG Colloquium series, specific sessions, or registration (a limited number of places are available), please contact Dieu Linh Bui Dao.
About This Series
The LMRG Colloquium is a venue for members and guests of the Lise Meitner Research Group, "China in the Global System of Science," to share work in progress on an ongoing basis. It is an opportunity to raise questions, discuss methodological challenges, or get feedback on preliminary conclusions. We aim to create a supportive atmosphere that combines rigorous criticism with genuine curiosity.
November 2022
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Workshop
Animal Materials as Multiple: Historical Problems in "Reading Animals"
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack Haus, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomLynen RoomContact and Registration
lonaga@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de or ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
This is a closed event. Audience seating is limited.
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Roundtable
Word and Image: The Role of Representation in the Transmission of Astral Knowledge
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & OnlineContact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing EVENT_DEPT3@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
- Workshop
Experiencing Nature through Old and New Epistemes around the Globe
Organizer(s)- Tracy Wietecha
- Katja Krause
- RAINER GODEL
AddressDeutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e. V. – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e. V. – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jägerberg 1, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany
Contact and Registration
For registration please contact: twietecha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Animal Intelligence and Animal Character in Aristotle’s "Historia Animalium"
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Christof Rapp
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The sessions will take place monthly on Fridays at 16:00–17:30 in an online or hybrid format. For more details, please contact us at science_conversation@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The monthly seminar "Early Science in Conversation" invites experts from different fields and with varied perspectives to examine the ways in which science defines itself and what the history of science is as a discipline. We will especially encourage collective reasoning about conceptions of science and the methodologies with which we inquire about our sources. Among other things, we will reflect on what have been regarded as premodern scientific and proto-scientific practices, their methods, and their techniques. This interdisciplinary encounter seeks to deepen the history of science’s awareness of its own agenda and to open up new pathways. The conversational format, along with lectures and discussions of work in progress, aims to build fruitful connections across the intellectual spectrum of the MPIWG.
- 09:00 to 10:00
- Colloquium
Magnifying Insect Histories
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Salka'Tuwa Bondoc Mafla
- Dominik Hünniger
- Diogo de Carvalho Cabral
- Frederico Freitas
- Luísa Reis-Castro
- Jude Philp
- Chakanetsa Mavhunga
- Christian Reiß
- Xiaoya Zhan
- Ivy Yeh
- Leah Lui-Chivizhe
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
This is event is closed to the public.
About This Series
These meetings facilitate discussions that take into account how insects/bugs/critters/species have been integral for knowledge production cutting across diverse political, social, and aesthetic thought, or practices. Insects offer us concrete, material ways to rethink the legacies or vestiges of disciplinary thinking and the practices by which different types of knowledge are created, owned, and used. By encouraging cross-disciplinary collaborations among scholars who employ a variety of sources concerning insects, a dialogue is advanced that stitches together different practices, subfields, and languages or geographies. In doing so, the topic of “insect histories” is addressed with mind to understand the social, political, economic, and epistemic significance of tiny animals encourages the participants to challenge the “normal”/dominant contours of the history of science to engage with non-human agencies. The resulting essays from this series will aspire to identify ways to think about insects as processes and multitudes, and as connective agents between and among disciplines, cultures, languages, and other norms.
- Lecture
Being between Scylla and Charybdis: Designing Animal Studies in Neurosciences and Psychiatry—Too Ethical to Be Ethical?
- Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)
- Alexandre Surget
Organizer(s)- Lara Keuck
- Steeves Damazeux
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
The seminar series is open to all. To receive the zoom link, please email Birgitta von Mallinckrodt (OFFICEKEUCK@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE).
About This Series
This research seminar is hosted by the Bordeaux-Berlin WORKING GROUP ON TRANSLATING VALIDITY IN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH and brings together historians, philosophers, psychiatrists, and biomedical researchers.
- 10:30 to 11:45
- Lecture
Towards a Systems-Based Historical Science
- Dept. I
- Ricardo Fernandes
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & OnlineContact and Registration
Please let us know if you would like to attend: rennoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
This is a hybrid event. The online event is accessible via the following link: https://zoom.us/j/95752530254
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Pugwash Scientists: Between Science and Diplomacy in the Cold War
- Several Speakers
- Alison Kraft
- Carola Sachse
- Commentator: Jan Hansen (HU Berlin)
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & OnlineContact and Registration
The Institute's Colloquium series Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War will take place in person at the MPIWG and online, and is open to all. Academics, students, and members of the public are all welcome to attend, listen, and participate in discussion.
For online and in-person participation in the Institute’s Main Conference Room, please register at this email address: mpiwg_ic@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
Please note in the subject of your email if you are registering for the Zoom meeting of if you would want to come in person.
- 12:00 to 13:30
Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
- 19:00 to 20:30
- Reading Group
"Childbirth Technologies"— Reading Group
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
For registration or any questions about the meetings please contact ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
Zoom link will be provided via request ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The monthly reading and works-in-progress group will investigate childbirth technologies across regions, cultures, and time periods. Guiding questions include how technologies emerge from childbirth-related practices and how practices change reproductive bodies and obstetrical tools. We will discuss our own work-in-progress as well as secondary literature, depending on the interests of the participants. One focus will be on the comparative epistemic and socio-material relations of these technologies. Instead of understanding knowledge and object as separate issues, we explore how they emerge together and what kind of relations are enacted through them.
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar
Interference Patterns of Religion and Science in Werner Heisenberg’s Popular Writings
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany